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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure

Community Center – Onagawa

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
By stacking the container temporary housing on the site, wide building intervals were achieved, and the design for the community...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Maison Hermès Pavilion

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The concept of the pavilion was to create a nomadic exhibition structure easy to assemble and disassemble; all the structure...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Disaster Relief DesignHouse and housing
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House

Onagawa Container House

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Since the 3.11 earthquake, we have visited more than 50 evacuation facilities and during that time, we heard the news...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecturePPS
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Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / East Japan Earthquake

Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Iwate / Miyagi / Fukushima / Yamagata / Niigata / Nagano / Tochigi, JapanThe evacuees of the great Japan Earthquake...
Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Retail and Commercial
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Retail and Commercial

Kushinoya

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Retail and Commercial
Located in the Daimaru department store in Osaka Station. The façade is veiled in an ethereal white string curtain that...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Retail and Commercial
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
House and housing
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House

House at Hanegi Park – Vista

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
The site is at the top of a slight hill, on the corner of an L-shaped street. Looking back down...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Timber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure

Hakushima New Station

Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
The triangular plaza that symbolizes the delta of the old Oota River and the Mori Clan family crest is covered...
Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
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Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater

Akira Kurosawa Memorial

Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
This project was planned to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa in 2010. The “Akira Kurosawa...
Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School

Seikei Elementary School

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School
Located on the Seikei University Campus, the Seikei Elementary School is terraced to the south to allow ample sunlight into...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Paper Tea House

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The Paper tea house is made of square paper tubes. Walls are connected by a steel rod and the roof...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2007
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
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Year: 2007
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store

Louis Vuitton Osaka Midosuji Maison

Year: 2007
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
The design concept of this project is the architecturalization of traditional Japanese Wickerwork technology as a relationship to the cultivated...
Year: 2007
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory

GC Oyama Factory

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
The GC Oyama Factory is a 2-storey facility for a dental equipment manufacturer, on a 851 square meter site with...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Nicolas G. Hayek Center

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
To accommodate seven watch brands in one building, the boutiques needed to be stacked vertically, causing disadvantage to upper floors....
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Nomadic Museum – Tokyo

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
The Nomadic Museum, a mobile exhibition hall dedicated to the photographs and video exhibitions by photographer Gregory Colbert, was built...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library

Seikei University Library

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library
The entire building is divided into three volumes; brick exterior book stacks buildings on either side supports a large roof...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
House and housing
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Vierendeel Dormitory

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
The structure of this company dormitory is organized by two parallel Vierendeel trusses that sit on eight columns, and a...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House

Atelier for a Glass Artist

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House
For a glass craftsman’s atelier an office-use steel shelf system was employed as an easy to assemble main structural system....
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 3 – Fujisawa

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
The new Paper Partition System was invented to improve the previous systems. This new system composed of columns and beams...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System 2 – Fukuoka Earthquake 2005

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
This paper partition system was developed for refugees form the Fukuoka earthquake that struck in 2005. The main issue in...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
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Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility

Cinema Complex Nagaoka

Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
The design of this commercial building, primarily a cinema complex, unifies diverse leisure facilities into one establishment. By making the...
Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 1

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
After the Niigata earthquake many families took refuge in gymnasiums, where they had to share space with strangers for the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Works
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Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility

Veloqx Akasaka

Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Escalators spiral around the oval Veloqx building housing restaurants, bars and cafes at all floors, offering 360 degree panoramic views...
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection

GC Itabaschi Headquarters

Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Running parallel to the streets on the east and west, the two wings of the GC building are united by...
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

GC Nagoya Building

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
The GC Nagoya Building for a dental equipment corporation contains ofzfice a seminar facility, and showroom, and is intended to...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Plastic Bottle Structure

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
For an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, plastic bottles were used structurally in order to create...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
House and housing
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure

Hanegi Forest Annex

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
In order to guarantee sufficient parking space at the ground level, the one story high steel frame structure of the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
House and housingHouses
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Shutter House for a photographer

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Belonging to a series of houses with stacking shutters, the Shutter House for a Photographer is organized on a checkered...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
House and housing
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Glass Shutter House

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
The rectangular volume of the Glass Shutter House matches the heights of the neighboring buildings yet occupies only half of...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier

Paper Studio

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
By building this paper tube arch structure, the architecture students of the Ban Laboratory at Keio University not only created...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Paper Art Museum Pam

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Built for a paper manufacturer, the PAM houses facilities for the exhibition, invention, and promotion of paper. As a museum,...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure

Wickerwork House

Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
This weekend house is composed of a glass box surmounted by a large woven plywood dome. Four structural plywood boards...
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure

Atsushi Imai Memorial Gymnasium

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
As an initial response to the small buildings surrounding the site, which include houses as well as a kindergarten and...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Housing
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Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Eda Housing

Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Situated next to a train station, the Eda housing complex incorporates a commercial area. To take in the flow of...
Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure

Church in Roppongi

Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure
The design of this Lutheran church strived to remain humble in response to the religious doctrine as well as the...
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
House and housingHouses
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House

Picture Window House

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
The main intention for the design of the Picture Window House was to frame the panoramic view while maintaining the...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum

Paper Art Museum B

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
For the 924-square-meter contemporary gallery, an existing structure  was renovated. A similar transformation occurs on its south facade. This entire...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Works
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Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure

Temporary Guggenheim Tokyo

Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
The competition of a temporary satellite of the New York Guggenheim Museum in Tokyo required three different phases of the...
Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure

Imai Hospital Daycare Center

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
The main space of the Daycare Center is created with LVL wood, the same as the roof material of the...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Veneer Grid Roof House

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The roof of the Veneer Grid Roof House is made of a triangular veneer grid similar to the triangular paper...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House